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Leucorrh

The golden-eye.

One who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or white iron; a tinsmith.

A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster. [Prov. Eng.]

Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths. Knight.

il flowers. From his herd he culls, For slaughter, from the fairest of his bulls. Dryden. Whitest honey in fairy gardens culled. Tennyson.

To change into curd; to cause to coagulate. "To curdle whites of eggs" Boyle.

The whites; leucorrhæa.

church; as, Christ's fold. There shall be one fold and one shepherd. John x. 16. The very whitest lamb in all my fold. Tennyson.

merican variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less common.

h, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.

as, the soft gray eye of a dove. These gray and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks. Sir I. Newton.

An enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the whites; -- commonly in the plural. [Colloq.] P. H. Sheridan.

One of the half-breed descendants of whites and Indians; a mestizo; -- so called throughout Central America. They are usually of a yellowish orange tinge. Am. Cyc.

m inflammation or irritation of the membrane lining the genital organs of the female; the whites. Dunglison.

A group of the human race, including the dark whites.

A delicate pastry made of powdered sugar and the whites of eggs whipped up, -- with jam or cream added.

A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians. J. F. Cooper.

The finest and whitest bread made in the Middle Ages; -- called also paynemain, payman. [Obs.]

To prepare (eggs) as a dish for the table, by stirring the yolks and whites together while cooking.